Keywords: Settlement
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Site Pages
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Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"Then, as the years fly by, the growth of the settlement to a village and a town; roads and houses on the hillsides in place of the retreating forest."
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"… dramatic rediscovery of the remains of the French settlement of 1604 on Bone Island (modern-day St. Croix Island) and Robert Pagan deposition."
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"… primary economic actors in White New Englanders’ settlement of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maine."
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"… to oversee the extension of British trade and settlement into new regions. Land—lots of it—was a means to that end."
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"… the Pejepscot Proprietors sold parcels for major settlements, and the Kennebec River watershed where the Kennebec Proprietors claimed and sold…"
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"… granted and organized by Royal decree, Dunbar’s settlement efforts threatened most of the land claimed by the new companies."
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES
"… Saco and Biddeford, with notices of other early settlements and of the propietary governments, in Maine, including the provinces of New…"
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"… women owned property, many others facilitated the settlement of early Maine. As colonists moved to the region both as squatters and titled…"
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"… Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent legislative victories during 2021-2022 supporting Passamaquoddy…"
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"He died in 1717 in Maine. He accomplished the settlement of twenty families on the island. Stephen Minot Stephen Minot started from perhaps the…"
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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"As settlement resumed in down-river areas, Arrowsic Island was incorporated as the Town of Georgetown in 1716."
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"… Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990)…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4
"Settlements didn't begin to move inland from the rivers and seacoast until after roads were developed in the early 1800s."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Home
"… the story of Thomaston, from our beginnings as a settlement called 'Lincoln' to modern day. Town from River, Thomaston, Maine 2002Thomaston…"
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"… industrial roots and remain, unlike most early settlements, an old fashioned mill-town. Come back with us and share our history in these three…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings
"Postscript: More Moving Buildings The Old House, Harbor Cottage, The Big Barn and the Old Ell were not the only structures in Asticou to move…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI
"Sources For A Short History Of Performing Arts On MDI Kreisler, Fritz, perf. "Beautiful Ohio." Rec. ca. 1930. Open Source Audio Collection, n.d."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island
"Wartime on Mt. Desert Island Wartime did not pass MDI by. Many of the local men fought in the Revolutionary War and MDI continued to be represented…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert
"The Savage Family of Mount Desert Augustus Chase Savage & Family, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1890Mount Desert Island Historical Society Text by…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2
"The Champlain Society Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society Significance of the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2
"The Champlain Society by Catherine Schmitt Creation of the Champlain Society Champlain Society, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Bar Harbor: Building of Arts
"Bar Harbor: Building of Arts Building of Arts, Bar Harbor, ca. 1930 Building of Arts, Bar HarborJesup Memorial Library The September 13, 1905…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Depression, War, and Fire
"Depression, War, and Fire Belmont Hotel, Bar Harbor, ca. 1910Jesup Memorial Library The Bar Harbor summer colony reached its peak after the…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…
"In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki… Wabanaki encampment, ca. 1000 BCEAbbe Museum Nearly 500 years ago, Wabanakis spotted the first…"